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Thumbnail Track Pad
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Thumbnail Track Pad

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a new wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad.

Graphics in Reverse
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Graphics in Reverse

MIT researchers will demonstrate at an upcoming conference that probabilistic programming can be competitive with conventional programs created with thousands of...

MIT to Launch Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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MIT to Launch Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

MIT is creating a new institute that will bring together researchers working in the mathematical, behavioral, and empirical sciences to capitalize on their shared...

Diagnosis By Keyboard
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Diagnosis By Keyboard

By revealing loss of motor skills, typing patterns may help to identify the early onset of Parkinson's.

Study Provides New Insights on MOOCs
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Study Provides New Insights on MOOCs

A joint MIT and Harvard University research team's investigation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) based on two years of data found that many enrollees are...

Reviewing Online Homework at Scale
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Reviewing Online Homework at Scale

The OverCode system examines thousands of programming solutions by MOOC students and identifies broad trends to give teachers a high-level view of students' understanding...

Better Debugger
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Better Debugger

An algorithm developed at MIT CSAIL automatically identifies integer overflow bugs.

Teaching Programming to Preschoolers
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Teaching Programming to Preschoolers

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by affixing stickers to laminated sheets...

Finger-Mounted Reading Device for the Blind
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Finger-Mounted Reading Device for the Blind

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory have built a prototype of a finger-mounted device with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for visually...

Six Keys to Sports Analytics
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics

The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...

Software Links School Technology and Strategies to Student Achievement
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Software Links School Technology and Strategies to Student Achievement

BrightBytes has developed data-analytics software for schools that links the implementation of classroom technologies, and other strategies, to student achievement...

Computer Scientist Fights Inefficiencies
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Computer Scientist Fights Inefficiencies

MIT Senior Sheldon Trotman designs computer programs to streamline anything that catches his eye.

Radio Chip For the 'internet of Things'
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Radio Chip For the 'internet of Things'

Researchers have developed a circuit whose leakage power is reduced when its transmitters are idle, which could greatly extend battery life.

Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome
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Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome

The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...

Smarter Multicore Chips
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Smarter Multicore Chips

MIT researchers have developed a technique manages and monitors the threads and data of multicore chips to allow frequent full-chip reconfigurations to improve...

Tackling the 'achilles' Heel' of Oled Displays
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Tackling the 'achilles' Heel' of Oled Displays

An inkjet-printing system could cut manufacturing costs enough to enable the mass-production of large-screen, flexible OLED displays.

Better How-to Videos
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Better How-to Videos

Educational researchers have developed a system that crowdsources the annotation of instructional videos to increase their value. 

Qubits With Staying Power
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Qubits With Staying Power

Researchers have unveiled a new design that in experiments extended the superposition time of a promising type of qubit a hundredfold, which could lead toward practical...

Privacy Challenges
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Privacy Challenges

Just four pieces of information are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card transactions by 1.1 million...

Telling Stories Using Computer Science
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Telling Stories Using Computer Science

MIT senior Shannon Kao's knack for storytelling informs her research in computer graphics.
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